Stanford University is on a roll lately offering a wide variety of free online courses to anyone, either through iTunes U on topics like iOS 5 Development, or through self-contained courses conducted entirely from the web that are free to enroll in. The latter is the case here, with Stanford offering 10 new online courses that are completely free to the public. Each class is taught by a renowned Stanford professor and is focused on technology and computer science, although two concentrate on the entrepreneurial side of things as well.

All classes start January 2012, so enroll now if you want to start learning from one of the best universities in the world:

You won’t get college credit for completing the courses unless you’re a Stanford student, but they will provide you with a statement of accomplishment and a performance rating compared to other online students, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to learn something.

Free courses from Stanford University is a freakishly good deal, where undergrad tuition alone is about $40,000 a year!

Stanford has offered this style of online learning in the past, recently offering a free online “Intro to Databases” course conducted on the web. That class is wrapping up so if you enrolled in that one, these classes are a great opportunity to further relevant knowledge.

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I love this. For someone who couldn’t in their wildest dreams afford an education at Stanford (and who is still paying off student loans from a state school!), this is simply fantastic. Thank you for posting these.

You won’t get college credit, but it is still a fantastic offer.
The prize is the learning, not the paper at the end.

I am halfway through professor Ng’s course on Machine Learning (which seems to be repeated in January, according to the list above), and even if I don’t manage to complete it -I certainly aim to- it has already been enormously useful.

Many things I’ve been struggling with for years are now
logically lined up and clear in my head. As an example, I’ve implemented backpropagation ANNs before, but now
I actually think I KNOW how they work, and why.
That is a quite wonderful feeling.

If the other courses are as good, I wish I could take all ten, but with work and all, it would be impossible.

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